Carl Sandburg (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Carl Sandburg was the son of Swedish immigrants who settled in Illinois. He attended public schools until the age of thirteen, then he began a long series of varied jobs, including carpenter’s assistant, dishwasher, and house painter. His experiences as a common laborer exemplify one side of Sandburg’s writings: the noisy, brash representation of the laboring classes, of which Chicago Poems (1916) is the best example.
As a student under the tutelage of Philip Green Wright at Lomard College, Sandburg published his first book, a paperbound...
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